Senate Bill No. 329

(By Senators Ross, Minard,

Snyder, Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 30, 2004; referred to the

Committee on Agriculture; then to the Committee on Finance; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 9, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to dairy products and imitation dairy products.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 9, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-1. Commissioner of agriculture.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of August, two thousand three, authorized under the authority of section ten, article eleven-a, chapter nineteen, of this code, modified by the commissioner of agriculture to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-fourth day of November, two thousand three, relating to the commissioner of agriculture (dairy products and imitation dairy products, 61 CSR 4C), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Dairy Products and Imitation Dairy Products.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.